TeachersFirst's Elementary School Brain Twisters

Week of February 2, 2025

1.Which is least likely to be a cause of water pollution?

Washing your car in your driveway.
Overflowing sewage treatment plants.
Making paper in a factory
Fertilizing fields.
Planting wildflowers around new buildings.

2.Which would come last in a phone book?

Rudolph Valentino
Ray Romeo
St. Valentine
Val Lentine
Cupid Cleaners

3.If you wanted to find out more about spring traditions in other countries all around the world, which would be the best combination to enter as search terms in Google?

other country spring
country flowers spring
traditions holiday
spring traditions world
spring tradition flowers

4.To paint a Valentine card full of flowers for your mom, you need purple paint, white paint, green paint, red paint, light blue paint, and pink paint. The art teacher gives you only two primary colors and white. You are able to make all the colors but one. Which colors did the teacher give you?

blue and green
yellow and red
green and yellow
red and blue
blue and yellow

5.Gwen's school runs on a six-day cycle (day1, day2, ..., day6) for scheduling. If today is Day 1 and is a Monday, how many full weeks of school will it take before Day 1 falls on a Monday again, assuming there is school every weekday?

8 weeks
6 weeks
10 weeks
not enough information
5 weeks

6.Your class has twelve girls and 9 boys. Everyone gets a valentine, but the boys give packs of conversation hearts, and the girls give lollipops. How many more lollipops will be given than packs of conversation hearts?

7.Fred lives in Idaho. He wants to visit Ellen in Chicago, and then Mark in New Orleans. What directions does he travel?

east, then south
east, then west
west, then south
south, then west
north, then south

8.Which is a correct sentence, including punctuation?

It said I love you.
I thought it were from my mom.
My card had a pear of hearts on it.
When it got here.
It was actually from a friend.

9.You are in North Carolina and drive south on Interstate 95 to Disney World. If you take the most direct route, which two states will you pass through on the way?

Georgia and Alabama
South Carolina and Virginia
Alabama and Mississippi
Georgia and South Carolina
South Carolina and Alabama

10.How many players' eyes would be on a baseball field with everyone in position, the bases loaded, and the batter up?

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